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russian military blogger has been killed in an explosion at a cafe and st petersburg, russia. here is new video showing the aftermath. several others were injured in the blast. thats according to russian state media . the explosion also caused the buildings facade to collapse. cnns matthew chance is in russia. matthew what are you learning? wow. i mean, you know you can see the pictures there. theres a police cordon all around that cafe in st petersburg, where there was an explosion...

President. its not clear to me that he will have achieved anything really beyond that. >> can you elaborate on what does it mean that kim has responded in some way? >> reporter: from the sounds of it, president trump says that kim is following him on twitter, so it seems that the north koreans have acknowledged that there has -- that president trump made this invitation, but they havent confirmed that hes actually going to be there, so theres been some kind of official acknowledgment to the u.s....

Talk to us about the potential logistics that would be involved. >> reporter: theres certainly a lot, fred, that has to go into this. even if it is just as simple as a two-minute meeting, a handshake, perhaps president trump making history by being the first sitting u.s. president to step across the military demarcation line onto north korean territory. just to do that, there are going to have to be hours of meetings going very late into the night here on the korean peninsula, and in fact, we go...

Admitted to having text conversations with mackenzie on june 16th at approximately 6:00 p.m., but nothing after that time. >> reporter: police say ajayi denied having any personal contact with lueck but authorities say he had photos of her in his possession. >> the way he communicated to us saying he didnt know who she was, that didnt seem to ring true given we knew what the nature of that contact was. >> reporter: police are not giving specifics of how she died, but they searched ajayis house w...

Leaders and members of the community here, and this is the first time the mayor is back in town after that really tense town hall that he held just last weekend. but today is a different tone. its a peaceful tone. people are saying i love you to one another, and theres a message of hope here, and that is the message that the mayor is trying to deliver himself. he spoke just moments ago, take a listen to what he had to say. >> we come together as a city to say that we are not going to go the way ...

Diversity of the community itself and the diversity -- >> did you mean -- i didnt mean to cut you off, but did you mean i couldnt find qualified black officers or officers of color? i couldnt find a qualified chief of color, or what does that mean you couldnt get it done? >> i couldnt get us to where the number of black officers on our department mirrors our community, and its really important that that happen if we want to have the kind of trust between communities of color and the department t...

People have to understand, yes, the laws are -- >> in a week? >> yeah, starting in a week after, you know, sometime after july 4th. >> so those cities include los angeles, chicago, new york, and atlanta. several city leaders have said they will not assist federal authorities in those raids. meantime, 2020 democrats are visiting immigration facilities across the country. this weekend today julian castro is visiting a migrant detention center in clint, texas. that facility has been the center of c...

I dont know that it will, but it could happen. i think hed like to do it, and i wouldnt mind doing it at all. >> you made this very public invitation to kim jong-un, would it be a bad sign if he doesnt show up? >> of course i thought of that. i know if he didnt everybody would say oh, he was stood up by chairman kim, no i understood that. >> we have two reporters standing by in seoul, south korea. well get to will ripley in just a moment. lets start with cnns white house correspondent abby phill...

Reopens after an explosion from under the sand sends a woman to the hospital. it happened at salty brine beach and the blast was so strong that it threw the 50-year-old woman from her chair onto the nearby jetty. heres cnns christi paul. >> reporter: rhode island authorities have removed sand from the area looking for clues after reports of a small explosion and injury of a 50-year-old woman, but the exact cause is a mystery. >> explosion is the word that came during the initial reports. theres ...

And discovered a rectangular hole in the cell shower that led to a vertical tunnel with stairs and from there to the escape tunnel. anna maria salazar is an analyst based in mexico and a former pentagon official. >> question apparently this particular prison is considered to be the secure -- one of the most if not the most secure prison in mexico and it had been evaluated by international authorities and gotten a very good evaluation. it was considered to be very secure. >> reporter: guzmans sin...